man·slay·er

(măn′slā′ər)

One, such as a person or animal, that kills a human.

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manslayer

(ˈmænˌsleɪə)

a person who kills people

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man•slay•er

(ˈmænˌsleɪ ər)

n.

a person who kills another human.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

manslayer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

liquidator, murderer

assassin, assassinator, bravo - a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"

butcher - a brutal indiscriminate murderer

criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

cutthroat - someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat

fratricide - a person who murders their brother or sister

gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman, gun, shooter - a professional killer who uses a gun

hatchet man, iceman - a professional killer

infanticide - a person who murders an infant

killer, slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal

mass murderer - a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident

murderess - a woman murderer

parricide - someone who kills his or her parent

ripper - a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the Ripper was probably a madman"

serial killer, serial murderer - someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval

manslayer

noun

One who murders another:

butcher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, massacrer, murderer, murderess, slaughterer, slayer, triggerman.

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References in periodicals archive

(63) This reputation for physical violence was also carried by the lethal wounds Jonson inflicted upon Admiral's actor Gabriel Spencer in their duel in September 1598, and was reflected upon later by Chapman: "didst thou not put out / A boies Right eye that Croste thy mankind poute?" (64) Among Firk's "tools" required for shoemaking'(spoken to Hans), he lists "your paring knife, your hand- and thumb-leathers" (4.74-75), which might well allude to Jonson's subsequent branding (on his right thumb, the letter "M" for "manslayer").

Moving with Marlowe (& Co.): relocation, appropriation, and personation in Thomas Dekker's the Shoemaker's Holiday

In line with Luther, Teilhard de Chardin also declares Christ to be a "manslayer or homicide" who not only posits the partial moments of his world-linked self-unfolding, but necessarily also consumes them as a means of self-identification.

Reteilhard de Chardin (C.I. Journal Jul/Aug 2013)